E-commerce Vietnam: Ever give ... amateur?

While experts still find answers to the question "Where is e-commerce Vietnam?", The demand of this market has formed spontaneously and developed quite vibrantly. Even women are now able to go shopping with . mouse and keyboard and conclude: It's cheap, good and convenient .

Forum of Fashion - Cosmetics - Jewelry on TTVN Online one day last year. The members fluttered, gathered like a festival. Surfing from top to bottom, it is not difficult to see a series of topics with attractive prompts " Get orders from abroad ". Well enough, from France, from Germany, from Korea, from China, from Canada . But the most, and the most interested are still topics from the US. There is nothing difficult to understand, because America is the country with the most developed e-commerce and all major shopping websites are in English.

Khanh Ly, a new Chinese student who returned home said Fashion - MP-TS has become an indispensable destination in her working day. " I have become familiar with very large commercial centers in Beijing, so I have almost fled to Vietnam. I have not been able to buy a shirt in Vietnam for 4.5 years. Domestic fashion is currently too poor, It's not fashionable, it's expensive, so I have to go to the Internet . "

Indeed, a beautiful sweater of Guangzhou, which is sold in fashion stores in Hanoi today, is priced at no less than three hundred thousand, even up to five or six hundred thousand. With that price, a sales specialist like Ly can buy a myriad of 100% "brand" sweaters, designed by famous American fashion firms such as American Eagle, Aeropostale, Victoria Secret .

Even if you give up more work, scouring big websites like Amazon and Overstock, they can buy fashion items from famous designers like Versace, Burberry, Dior, Gucci . at prices. only 20-30% of the original price. Meanwhile, a "bitter" fact is that even when millions of VND are spent, consumers are not sure to buy a genuine, "genuine" item in Vietnam, because many shops have mixed knocked off and sold with real things. Or if there is a genuine "genuine" product, it will also be priced from half to several times the real value.

There is a bow for all

The regulators and regulators of e-commerce are still wondering: "Should be optimistic or have a cautious look for the near future of e-commerce Vietnam?"( Photo: The Phong ).

Christmas and post-Christmas season, the American side sold "as captured". Every website has a bright red banner with words that are half full screen: Big Sale. Less 50% less, more 70-80%. Big, popularly popular brands like Guess, Esprit, Mango, Bebe, Armani Exchange, Leví's, Ninewest all participated in the devaluation.

The problem is not everyone in the US, or the conditions to fly to the US to go shopping. But once the "shopping" disease has developed, it is difficult for the women to hold their hearts. As a result, network-based ordering services were born.

One of these pioneering services is AFshop. At first, only a few cosmetics were put in order to return to Vietnam on the occasion of coming to Vietnam, so far, AFShop has "bid" for nearly 10 topics to buy goods from the US, with enough fashion brands that people love Vietnam has just heard "crazy island spirit", from Esprit, Mango, Victoria Secret to Levi's, Armani Exchange, Bebe. List of customers ordered up to several dozen pages. Thai Viet Anh and Thuy Linh, the two "bosses" of AFshop even designed a separate website for customers to update discount programs, order for convenience.

No heat, but also no less attractive is the service of "pregnant" Russian-Maryland. With the advantage of extremely fast shipping (sometimes less than 2 weeks, goods have returned to Vietnam), prestige, the working style is very principle, Russian-Maryland's service attracts a large number of close customers. set. There are people who order up to a few dozen products each time, and there are also people who have spent thousands of dollars through this service to buy luxury items like the Luis Vutton bag.

"Teen" and popular than the topic of receiving orders from Korea, China. Raised from the autumn of 2006, the topic created by nick 60_le_duan, moonie, karinavi, mickeyyeu quickly attracted many women. The site that these topics are used to sample is Gmarket - an extremely popular Korean e-commerce website and Taobao.com, a familiar address for Chinese teenagers.

Talking about Gmarket, this is one of the few websites that can beat eBay in Korea, a country where technology giants have to suffer (such as Google). The designs on Gmarket are all in vogue in Asian youth today, so it quickly "caught on" with Vietnamese shopping followers. The online ordering is successful, nick 60_leduan even comes back, invests in offline shops, sells some more models that he imported from abroad.

If you like French fashion, you can also find on the topics f363 for ordering from la redoute.fr, European mango, promod and mexx ., the brands that "trendy" sisters are quite familiar with . Even the high-end product lines of big designers like D & G, Versace, Gianferco ferre, Roberto Cavalli also appeared on f363, with prices up to millions.

Thus, while Vietnamese e-commerce planners and applications are still wondering whether to be optimistic or cautious about legal issues, online payment, infrastructure is not guaranteed, then the demand for electronic goods of Vietnamese people has gone one step ahead.

Vietnamese online buyers have sufficient qualifications, conditions, capabilities and needs to use international e-commerce services on the Internet, even accepting the cost of shipping goods to Vietnam to buy items. like. E-commerce market demand is already very popular, but Vietnamese e-commerce people, such as in the recent VEBIZ 2007 conference, are still struggling to find answers to the question: Where is e-commerce in Vietnam standing?

Trong Cam